bruby 2.4.29-rc2 + vcstime

[Hugo V. <hvw...@ya...>]

I knew everybody was waiting with baited breath for
vcstime (vcstime - Show time in upper right hand
corner of the console screen) to run again after that
success with the pc speaker!

This is the patch on top of Jean-Daniel's 2.4.29-rc2
patch:

diff -Naur linux-2.4.29/drivers/char/vc_screen.c
linux-2.4.29-vcstime/drivers/char/vc_screen.c
--- linux-2.4.29/drivers/char/vc_screen.c	2005-01-18
15:20:58.000000000 -0600
+++ linux-2.4.29-vcstime/drivers/char/vc_screen.c
2005-01-18 15:18:41.000000000 -0600
@@ -493,7 +493,7 @@
 		buf += orig_count;
 		pos += orig_count;
 		if (org0)
-			update_region(currcons, (unsigned long)(org0),
org-org0);
+ 			update_region(vc, (unsigned long)(org0),
org-org0); /*HVW*/
 	}
 	*ppos = pos;
 	ret = written;
@@ -511,7 +511,9 @@
 {
 	unsigned int currcons = (MINOR(inode->i_rdev) &
127);
         struct vc_data *vc;
-
+	++currcons;         /*HVW*/
+/*	if vc#0 has minor 128 then currcons ends up 0 */
+/*	in that case vc is not set up and things blow */
         if (currcons) {
                 vc = find_vc(currcons-1);
                 if (vc)

In Debian Sarge, because I have svgatextmode installed
I had to start vcstime separately after console-screen
and not with console-screen's config because it would
write to the screen in two places.

vcstime puts the tod in the right upper corner of all
the vc's.


The program mentioned here:
http://www.icewalkers.com/Linux/ManPages/vcsa-4.html
now also works as an example of screen attribute
changes.

Hugo


	
		
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